Getting Conky working and some simple questions for a complete noob

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Hi all,

complete linux noob here, decided to take the plunge last night with Ubuntu 8.04 after playing with in a virtual machine. I'm very impressed so far, but i'm having a couple of problems.

Looking at one of the threads here, i noticed someone using Conky. I've been trying to get it working using this simple guide:

http://www.simplehelp.net/2008/05/20/how-to-display-your-system-info-on-your-linux-desktop/

I've managed to get it installed but cant find the blank .conkyrc file in my home directory? It will run when i do alt-f2 and type conky but it's blank and white.

I'm very impressed by Linux though, i think i will be using this as my main system.
 
Conky does work now but will vanish from the desktop at random and then i cant see to get it back.

Anyone got any ideas?

Edit: As well, my windows installation has anti-spyware/anti-virus etc Do i need any for Linux?
 
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quackers said:
Conky does work now but will vanish from the desktop at random and then i cant see to get it back.

Anyone got any ideas?
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Is conky still running when it disappears? Check under Administration -> System Monitor. I had a similar issue - conky was running, but it would be invisible from time to time - but I can't for the life of me remember how I solved it :o
 
Thanks for that, i'll have another go in a bit.

I've installed ubuntu on a separate drive, i have another drive in the pc with xp. Is there anyway i can get to the files on that disk in ubuntu?
 
quackers said:
I've installed ubuntu on a separate drive, i have another drive in the pc with xp. Is there anyway i can get to the files on that disk in ubuntu?
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Yep, easily. I honestly thought Ubuntu had NTFS support 'out of the box' - I don't remember having to install anything to get my NTFS partitions useable. Is the XP drive not there under the "Places" menu?
 
quackers said:
nope, i've got administrator, desktop, file system, network servers, deleted items
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Right. If you go into Synaptic, search for a package called ntfs-3g and install it. There may be some dependent packages as well which it'll ask you to install. I think it's that one that you need.

I also have ntfs-config installed because I used it to set my system up to mount both my NTFS partitions on start-up.
 
Also check in the places menu then select computer. It won't show up in the places unless you have it set to automatically mount at boot which I doubt you have done. You should find it in there and it will ask for your password when you select it.

Hope this helps!
 
JRS said:
Yep, easily. I honestly thought Ubuntu had NTFS support 'out of the box' - I don't remember having to install anything to get my NTFS partitions useable. Is the XP drive not there under the "Places" menu?
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NTFS IS supported out of the box from 7:10

He should have listed in his places menu something akin to this..

Places.jpg
... The Capture and Render are NTFS drives. I cooked my XP drive so now use XP in Virtualbox if I need it (rarely)

Are both drives set as master and Ubuntu is Bossing XP ?


btw.. I just noticed... WTF is allegro.. apart from a crappy car I used to own ? I don't remember installing that. Did it come in with the latest updates today ?
 
Hmm i've installed ntfs-3g and my xp drive is definitely not there in places, i ran ntf3-3g and it only detected my ubuntu drive.

My xp drive is a sata drive, ubuntu is on an old ide drive with a dvd writer attached to the cable as well, does this make any difference?
 
Nope. Thats the way I ran my system till I fried my XP drive

The one on the table WAS my XP drive ( I plugged it back in wrong way round !!)

Other two are Capture and Render. Ubuntu is on a 160gb IDE in one of the 5.25 bays near the dvd burner.

PcTable.jpg
 
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quackers - try installing ntfs-config from Synaptic if you haven't already. Run it and make sure that "Enable write support for internal device" is ticked.
 
Well bit of an update on this one. I original installed 8.04 while in windows and once installed i couldn't see the xp disk, so last night i formatted the 10gb disk and installed 7.04 while in the live cd and all was well once it booted up. I could see the xp disk and it's partitions once i installed the ntfs config tool. :)

I did all the updates and noticed i could upgrade to 8.04, so i thought now i can see the windows disk i might as well. It's just finished and now i can't see the xp disk again!

I think with the 7.04 install, it proves there is nothing wrong with my xp disk and it's something to do with the 8.04 install itself.

I've just tried sudo fdisk - l and it's only picking up the 10gb disk, anyone got any ideas?
 
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